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GeForce GT 430 1GB vs Radeon HD 5850

Intro

The GeForce GT 430 1GB comes with a core clock speed of 700 MHz and a GDDR3 memory frequency of 900 MHz. It also features a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It is made up of 96 SPUs, 16 Texture Address Units, and 4 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 5850, which comes with a core clock speed of 725 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1000 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 40 nm design. It is comprised of 1440(288x5) SPUs, 72 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 430 1GB 60 Watts
Radeon HD 5850 151 Watts
Difference: 91 Watts (152%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon HD 5850 should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GT 430 1GB overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 5850 128000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB 28800 MB/sec
Difference: 99200 (344%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 5850 should be much (more or less 366%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GT 430 1GB. (explain)

Radeon HD 5850 52200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB 11200 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 41000 (366%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon HD 5850 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon HD 5850 23200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 430 1GB 2800 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 20400 (729%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GT 430 1GB Radeon HD 5850
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year October 2010 September 30, 2009
Code Name GF108 Cypress PRO
Memory 1024 MB 1024 MB
Core Speed 700 MHz 725 MHz
Memory Speed 1800 MHz 4000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 60 watts 151 watts
Bandwidth 28800 MB/sec 128000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 11200 Mtexels/sec 52200 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 2800 Mpixels/sec 23200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 96 1440(288x5)
Texture Mapping Units 16 72
Render Output Units 4 32
Bus Type GDDR3 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 40 nm
Transistors 585 million 2154 million
Bus PCIe x16 PCIe 2.1 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 3.2

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce GT 430 1GB

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Radeon HD 5850

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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